Harrington Beach State Park is a
637-acre (258 ha) Wisconsin state park on the shore of Lake Michigan. In
addition to a mile-long beach, the park contains a white cedar swamp surrounding
a 26-acre (11 ha) lake which used to be a stone quarry.

former stone quarry

In the 1880s, ownership of the property was in the hands of a
dozen different landowners, and much of the land was tilled field or pasture.
From the early 1890s until 1925,
the eastern section of the park was used for quarrying limestone, and a mining
community called Stonehaven was developed.

Lake Michigan shore linene

he steamer "Niagara" disaster

its anchor

The ship Hennepin,
was originally built in October 1888 and had a 1600 ton capacity. The ship was
sold to the Lake Shore Stone Company, who fitted it with a conveyor belt and
made it a self-unloading ship. It was put to work loading stone from a quarry in
Stonehaven, Wisconsin. Sank on August 18, 1927 off the east coast of Lake
Michigan, west of South Haven, Michigan.